Chapter 13

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All of the Following took place under the constitution and state laws of independent Texas except:

Allowing Native Americans equal rights.

Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek massacre massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?

John Brown

The Republican free labor ideology:

Led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.

The American Civil War began in 1861,when:

Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter.

By 1856 Republican Party included individuals who had been, until recently, members of each of the following political groups except:

Federalist.

The fugitive slave act of 1850:

Gave new powers to the federal officers to override local law-enforcement.

That 1860 Republican platform stated all the following except:

Slavery should be abolished in the nations capital.

In 1860 which state became the first to pass an ordinance of succession and declared self separated from the union?

South Carolina

Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?

Territorial expansion raise the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.

Which of the following was not a provision of the compromise of 1850?

The Oregon territory would be created.


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